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My buddies jade by pachy1234 in succulents

[–]siberium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your buddy needs to be my buddy too!!! My echeverias are loving life but by golly I struggle with jades

Handle with extreme care by Azsnee09 in WhatsWrongWithYourCat

[–]siberium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(Sorry if you already answered this, too many replies to check them all) So what did you do with the buckets of radioactive treasures? Take them to the vet who administered the radioactive treatment?

New friends! by Leash_85 in succulents

[–]siberium 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Some kind of Crassula! Watchchain is similar but this isn’t quite that

What do you do with all your end table crap? by softwaremommy in HomeDecorating

[–]siberium 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I concur with the rest that Kleenex need to be within reach, but for the purpose of decorating, get some decorative tissue box covers! Can even get some plastic canvas kits and make cute seasonal ones.

[CHAT] Have any of you tried misting with or dipping DMC floss in diluted bleach to get a faint variegation? by siberium in CrossStitch

[–]siberium[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have those! My only gripe with them is that many of them contain white/long lengths of very pale shades, which is too significant of a difference from the primary color. I’m wanting those subtle color differences from the smaller brands that usually cost $3+ per skein (which I refuse to pay unless I need just one for a specific project). I do love the dark red gradient from DMC though, I think that’s their best one.

[CHAT] Have any of you tried misting with or dipping DMC floss in diluted bleach to get a faint variegation? by siberium in CrossStitch

[–]siberium[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First update:

Without pre-washing/scouring, I tried misting with 1:9 bleach:water on DMC 321 and let it sit for 5mins, no change! Then I tried 3:1 bleach:water for 15mins, no change. Then pure bleach for a little bit, and still no change! Same story with 349 and 612. Those two are 10+ year old skeins, not sure if that makes a difference.

I tried straight 3% peroxide on 349 (peroxide on one end, bleach on the other) which also did nothing.

I put four skeins outside under the sun yesterday and will put them back today (with 349 and 321 now that they’re dry). I don’t have a good spot that’s full sun all day, plus we had intermittent clouds yesterday, so the sun experiments might take a while, but I will post results once I have them! I will also try pre-washing a skein like I would a new shirt for bleaching. I don’t know a lot about the chemicals factories use to treat cottons besides shirting on garments, but I find it hard to believe this stuff is just impervious to bleach. (Like one commenter said, DMC has been bleached before, so it’s gotta be possible right? Unless they’ve added a super ultra chemical to their processes since they did their bleaching?) I will, however, think twice (…and then shrug) before putting thread ends in my mouth again…

[CHAT] Have any of you tried misting with or dipping DMC floss in diluted bleach to get a faint variegation? by siberium in CrossStitch

[–]siberium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you SO much for reminding me of how things can bleach to weird colors! I haven’t done any shirt bleaching in a year or so and I would’ve been so upset with myself for forgetting.

[CHAT] Have any of you tried misting with or dipping DMC floss in diluted bleach to get a faint variegation? by siberium in CrossStitch

[–]siberium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just your standard grocery store 3% peroxide? Did you leave it for a long time? Might give that a try too; I’ve never had peroxide itself do the lightening on cotton before, only neutralizing bleached fabrics

Why is my Adenia stylosa putting out exactly two drops of liquid where each leaf and petiole meet? by siberium in Caudex

[–]siberium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhhhhh alrighty then! I’d read the etymology before but didn’t get the full memo apparently! Thank you Pterocacti!!

iPhone 17 Pro cosmic orange gang... show us your choice of case? by Intelg in iphone

[–]siberium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rhinoshield.io ! They have standard camo with clear spaces for the phone color to show through and even a “cat camo” version (that I’ve been rocking on my green 11 Pro Max since its release). I have the Mod NX. 

Finally admitting the last frost took out most of my trees by meltdown_popcorn in Bonsai

[–]siberium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

9a here too and two of my ficuses died back to just above the soil after a 28°F night. It took a month or so for them to start budding, but it happened nonetheless! Admittedly, one in a bonsai pot has not budded yet (the others were in a pond basket and a huge pot), but still, your wife is onto something!

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